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Surnames: CORBIN, DOBSON, HALL, INMAN, JACKSON, LAMB, WOLLAM
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, December 31, 1925,
Volume L, Number 8, Page 4, Column 2, “DEATH’S HARVEST—CORBIN.” [Transcribed on November
29, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern
Greene County Public Library.]
John B. CORBIN, son of Jesse and Delilah {JACKSON}CORBIN, was born in Jackson Township,
Greene County, September 26, 1844, and died at his home near Dresden, December 15, 1925,
aged eighty-one years, two months and nineteen days.
He was the eldest of a family of fifteen children.
During the second year of the Civil War, at the age of eighteen years, he left home and
loved ones and enlisted with CO F SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, in service for
his county. During the remainder of the war he suffered many hardships incident to war
life, and fought in some of the hardest battles with bravery, the effects from which he
had been a sufferer for years. At the close of the war he received an honorable discharge
and returned to his home and friends, proud (as a boy) of his services for the flag of his
country.
On November 2, 18871, he was united in marriage to Hannah LAMB. To this union were born
eleven children—four girls and seven boys, namely: Mrs. Sadie DOBSON (who for weeks was at
his bedside and administered to his every want and need); Mrs. Louretta INMAN (deceased);
Mrs. Della HALL, Mrs. Iva WOLLAM, Charles, Frank, Herschel, Luther, Ira (deceased), Hovey
and Raymond. He had fifty grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren.
For fifty-four years he and his good wife lived peacefully together, toiling day by day
for their family, and in their declining years after their children were all married and
they were alone, it gave them much pleasure for their children and grandchildren to gather
around the family fireside, as they so often did. But now when they come, father’s chair
will be vacant and they can no more see his face nor hear his voice on earth.
In his early young manhood he united with the Regular Baptist Church at Kentucky Ridge,
but several years later moved his membership to the M. E. Church at Ashcraft Chapel. He
was a lover of good books and in his declining years after retiring from the activities of
life, he found great pleasure in reading the newspapers. He was a staunch Republican, and
no one was more loyal to his party than he. He was honest in all his dealings; was a good
neighbor and a loyal citizen.
He leaves his aged companion, nine children, seven sisters, three brothers, and a host of
other relatives and friends to mourn his death. But we mourn not as those who have no
hope.
Followed by a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends he was taken to Ashcraft
Chapel, Wednesday, where funeral services were conducted by Rev. HUFF and Rev. HATFIELD,
and was laid to rest in the Ashcraft Cemetery.
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The family wish to thank their neighbors and friends for their kindness and for the
beautiful floral offering.
THE FAMILY.
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Link to the Obituary of his wife, Hannah Miranda (LAMB) CORBIN [1849IN—1926IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his father, Jesse CORBIN [1823KY—1894IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his mother, Delilah (JACKSON) CORBIN [1827KY—1891IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his grandmother, Sarah Hannah (BIVENS) CORBIN [1796KY—1889IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his son, Charles E. CORBIN [1876IN—1937IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his son, Ira CORBIN [1886IN—1924IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his son, Alvin Hovey CORBIN, SR [1888IN—1966IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his daughter, Louretta (CORBIN) INMAN [1874IN—1902IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his daughter, Della Belle (CORBIN) HALL [1880IN—1969IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his son, Benjamin Franklin CORBIN [1877IN—1975IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his sister, Amanda CORBIN [1849IN—1933IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his sister, Cathryn (CORBIN) BRUCE [1852IN—1936IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his sister, Lucretia (CORBIN) DOYLE [1857IN—1936IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his sister, Minerva Jane (CORBIN) SMITH [1841IN—1923IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his sister, Martha Ellen (CORBIN) (ASHCRAFT) HORN
[1869IN—1957IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of his brother, James Emanuel CORBIN [1871IN—1955IN]:
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